The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night sky. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn can be seen with the naked eye, while ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a vast chasm of space across the solar system, separated from each other by ...

"Yes, you can go on Google and get a more spectacular view ... It is not just within our Solar System that planet alignments are useful. Astronomers use alignments to probe many different aspects ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

A new type of exoplanet has been discovered: Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b. Long heralded as a mini-Neptune, new observations have indicated that it is a member of a category never seen before ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

"Yes, you can go on Google and get a more spectacular ... An alien civilization might also look up towards our Solar System to use such planet alignments to send communications or signals, the ...